Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-20
CHATTER VI.

| Months followed without bringing much
change in The situation In spite Of himself.
it happened that Julia and Henrietta, bis
wife, met frequently, at one house cr the
| 3lher. Lucien was as far as ever from re-
! alzing the truth. and Henriettc never sus-
| pected it. Every time Julia and Roger met
when they could not speak, her eyes suppl
Gated him, but he remained inflexble
| Lucien's health remained very delicate and
| had it not been for few fortunate specu,a-
lions he made under the direction of broker
named Luversan he might have been in real
need.
/ The war had been well nigh fatal also to
| Rogers business and it was with great diff
Guilty that he could meet his obligations and
keep his business going until the summer Of
1872, when our story opens.
| II was just at this juncture and under these
circumstances that Larouette claimed the
| payment of tho money which so distressed
| Roger to pay.
When Larouetts had come into possession
| of his umcle'S fortune, one afternoon young
man of % years or observation-disclosures, dark
| complexioned, vita wide shouldcrs-presented
himself at the lawyers house and asked to
see Nine Dc Noirville. He was the broker
|
recent speculations Julia knew him by sight,
having met him before in her husbands room.
| And one day, While he was waiting to be re-
ceived by NJ. De Eoirville, he stood with his
| back turned as She entered the ROOM She
thought it was Roger Laroquc who was
standing there, and sprang forward, saying:
'Roger, ono word"
lie turned, and she gave cry of surprise.
1t was Luyersan The same carriage of the
head, tho same height and build, same beard
and hair, but there ended the resemblance.
The eyes were hard, the nose larger, with
narrow nostrils, the forehead lower and the
| eyebrows bushier
Who was this man? Clever sharp, with
out scruples, he began his career as employe
in a commercial house. They saw him about
the Louvre year. Then came the war and
he had disappeared He had drifted from
one army to the other, spying for French
and Germans alike, for whoever paid him
best, having one object in view--to get rich
and to launch himself into a grand business
as soon as peace was declared.
During the days preceding the battle OF
| Culmiers, Rogers, then officer of the commits
sury was following a road near the forest of
| Marchenoir, having been sent out with small
accommodating party, numbering about thirty
men, commanded by lieutenant. A peasant
ran toward them and told them that guard
of Prussian infantry, composed of some
| twenty men, had just installed themselves at
farm about two miles further on, and were
annoying the people. The lieutenant placed
full confidence in this man, but Roger felt
that he was not sincere. and watching his
chance managed to get beside him, and, hold
ing a cooked revolver in his hand, said:
IF find you have deceived me 1 will blow
| your brains OUT
The peasant, a great broad shouldered.
dark complexioned nan, said nothing, but
looked at Roger as if he knew him. They
reached the farm and surrounded it, After
making a slight show of resistance the Prus-
slams laid down their arms, aud the French
were so sure of their victory that they were
thrown off their guard, when, like a sudden
burst of fame, the cellars, the stables and
barns poured forth 200 men, who surrounded
the French in an instant Roger, furious,
looked for the peasant who had led them into
this trap In the confusion he had escaped,
but Rogers keen eyes found him out and he
sent a pistol ball into the traitors left
shoulder, which, however, did no serious in
| Jury. Still it served to arouse a feeling of
revengeful rage, but Roger, after firing that
| shot, managed 10 escape into the dense forest
of Marchenoir. and he at last reached his
command.
Three days later the German army, beaten.
had abandoned Orleans, and among the
stragglers who gathered around the French
army Roger saw the very man who had be-
trayed his comrades. He was dressed diff
ferently, had shaved off bis mustache ard